New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
Bronze statue of Minerva and the Bell Ringers that is part of the James Gordon Bennett Memorial in Herald Square. The statue was sculpted by Antonin Jean Carles and was once part of the New York Herald Building.
Commemorative plaque with the inscription: Here the motion picture began on the night of April 23, 1896 on this site in Koster & Bial’s Music Hall Thomas A. Edison with the Vitascope first projected a moving picture.
This building once housed Oppenheim Collins and Company. Founded in 1871 by Albert D. and Charles J. Oppenheim, Oppenheim Collins was originally a New York City skirt manufacturer, later branching into department stores catering to women. The first...
This is a photograph of the main lobby in the Empire State Building. It is through here that the observation deck is accessed by the curious. In 2009, a 12.5 million restoration of the murals on the ceiling was completed, so be sure to look up.
